Kristina Hakanson

The Holy or the Broken Hallelujah

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this impressive first collection, Kristina Hakanson gives us-in both free verse and lyric prose forms-poems of considerable range and power, most poignantly those about her beloved father's terminal illness. In one, she makes this striking and quintessentially human confession: "I'm about to say goodbye / to my bedridden father, / the first man I loved, / the only one whose heart I refuse to break, / ashamed that I ever did, / if I ever did. / I'm sure I did." Hakanson's work evokes a fraught yet wrenchingly beautiful world-a "heaven's underside" in which "Each sorrow converted to ice / grows warm in the palm of your hand."-Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita Both elegiac and celebratory, these poems derive their strength from the real world around us: wooden spoons, egg-beaters, a coffee cup, the teeth of a harrow-touched here and there by an element of the surreal (a wolf in a cello). I admire their clean language and plainspoken balance, from the mundane to the eternal-their realization that "Whole lives are lived on the dirt/ which long ago came from the stars".-Joseph Millar

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Finishing Line Press
• Seitenzahl: 42
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 3mm
• Gewicht: 68g
• ISBN-13: 9781646627578
• ISBN-10: 1646627571
• Artikelnr.: 63511838

Autorenporträt

Kristina Hakanson is a writer and English teacher who dabbles in photography. A graduate of Pacific University's MFA in Writing program, she served as senior poetry editor for Silk Road. She and her husband, Jonathan Brechner, wrote The Ordinary Glow of Life, a collection of collaborative poetry. Recent poems of hers have appeared in Reunion: The Dallas Review, ellipsis..., NonBinary Review, Broad Street, and Tinderbox. She lives with her husband in Arizona. logic0fwings.wordpress.com